Even though I was told by a manager that they would be put out on the 20th, they still weren't out this morning, so I had to use the DPCI trick to get them - at least the employees didn't give me any grief about it.

I like both sets, would love to army build them, but at $15 each, it just doesn't seem practical.

I grabbed one set to keep MOC and another set to open. If by some miracle these make it to clearance like the previous two sets, then I'll try to snag a few more of each - would definitely love to have small squads of the Special Ops Clone, Geonosian Drone and the Red Battledroid.

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Peter

Letting my collecting OCD get the better of me on a DAILY basis... and loving EVERY minute of it!

I saw these tonight... Army builders in 2 2-packs? Man, this is really where the realistic line fails. You do something similar for realistic figures and I can't imagine that it would tank so long as the figures used were quality.

I picked up the set with the tri-pod gun, and I'm going to sell the Geonosian out of it... I may sell the Clone too, I really just wanted the gun in it, but yeah, this is a really cool set I think. They're both cool sets really.

Picked these up yesterday morning at the local Target, and overall, they're pretty cool sets. The clones are both very well done; the Battle Droid is what it is (I will need to get two more to pilot and gun in the recent AAT, so if anyone just wanted a Waxer and had no interest in the BD, let me know and I could probably hook you up with one).

My only issue with the sets is the Geonosian. It's a really well done figure (I love the Zombie version), but the omission of the chest/shoulder piece bugs me (no pun intended). Not so much that it isn't included, but that the hole said piece plugs into is left empty. Still, that cool tripod cannon makes up for that small issue, so everything kind of evens out.

What really surprised me is that my local Target actually had them on the pegs, considering I sometimes wonder if this particular store even remembers they have a toy department.

I don't recall from the episode but do the bugs use the tripod cannon or is that a piece of Republic artillery?* I like the SpecOps set the best since it has 2 generic army builders in there, too bad they didn't include the backpack for the clone as most of them were sporting one in the episode. I had an extra one lying about and it really makes the figure, I think.

I'll pick up a couple more if it ever makes it to clearance.

* I guess I should have looked closer to the battle card included for the Geonosian as it shows it in using by the separatists.